Born at Stockport, and was apprenticed to Messrs Killer and Flint, of that place, and then proceeded to the Richmond School of Medicine, Dublin. He returned to practise for half a century in his native town. He was Surgeon to the Stockport Infirmary from 1836-1858, and was elected Consulting Surgeon

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the Senior Prize for Clinical Surgery in 1886, and afterwards in Paris. He practised first at Bodmin, then at Bovey Tracy, Devonshire, where he was Certifying Factory Surgeon, Surgeon to the Oddfellows, and Local Medical Referee to the Home for I

Was apprenticed to one of the medical officers of the City Dispensary, and completed his professional training at Guy's Hospital. In 1839 he was appointed Resident Medical Officer at the Metropolitan Dispensary, 9 Fore Street, EC, looking on to the churchyard of St Giles's, Cripplegate, at a salary